Zhang Guozheng

Zhang Guozheng
Personal information
Surname:	Zhang Guozheng
Nationality:	People's Republic of China
Date of birth:	September 14, 1974
Place of birth:	Xianyou
Size:	163 cm
Medal table

Zhang Guozheng (born September 14, 1974 in Xianyou , Fujian ) is a former Chinese weightlifter .

Career

Zhang first appeared at the 1999 World Championships in Athens , where the then 25-year-old finished 5th in the lightweight category with 337.5 kg. With the same duel load, he finished fourth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney a year later . At his second World Cup in 2002, however, he was able to win gold in duels and jerks, as well as silver in snatch. In 2003, a year later, he repeated this, only this time with gold in tears.

He was able to live up to his role as a favorite at the 2004 Olympic Games and won a duel weighing 347.5 kg and 2.5 kg ahead of his competitor Lee Bae Young from South Korea. In 2007, the 33-year-old was able to win the World Cup in Chiang Mai again . Although Zhang prepared intensively for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , the younger Liao Hui and Shi Zhiyong were nominated in his place for the 69 kg class.

Personal best

• Tear: 160.0 kg in the class up to 69 kg
• Push: 197.5 kg in the 69 kg class at the 2003 Asian Championships
• Combat: 352.5 kg in the class up to 69 kg

swell

• Zhang Guozheng, China's Gold Hope on Weightlifting (accessed January 6, 2008).
• Red Star Zhang Guozheng: Pumping Iron, Winning Gold ( July 20, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ) (accessed January 6, 2008).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zhang Guozheng http://en.olympic.cn/athletes/serch_Z/2004-10-12/346638.html (accessed January 6, 2008).

Web links

• Zhang Guozheng at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Zhang Guozheng (as Zhan Guozheng) at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Zhang Guozheng in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Zhang Guozheng in the lift-up project at chidlovski.net (English)